Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.

If you live to fail, then you fail to live.

"What is your fortune my pretty maid?" "My face is my fortune sir " she said.

A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.